Workflow preset

Video Watching: layout for Mac

Video Watching can be driven from a game controller, a MIDI pad, or an adaptive controller on a Mac. InputConfig sends real keyboard and mouse events, so the app sees an ordinary keyboard and mouse. This is the layout the app's Smart Preset Maker builds for it: Play, seek, fullscreen, volume (YouTube, etc.).

Get the preset in two clicks

  1. Open InputConfig and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
  2. Search for Video Watching and pick it. The layout below is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
  3. Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.

The full button map

ControllerSendsWhat it does
A / CrossSpacePlay / Pause (Space)
B / CircleFFullscreen (F)
X / SquareMMute (M)
Y / TriangleCCaptions (C)
Left stick leftLeftSeek back (Left)
Left stick rightRightSeek forward (Right)
LB / L1JBack 10s (J)
RB / R1LForward 10s (L)
D-pad upUpVolume up
D-pad downDownVolume down
Right triggerLeft clickClick

Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labelled B; the mapping still fires on position.

Tips

  • A plays and pauses, B is fullscreen; left stick seeks.
  • Bumpers jump 10 seconds; D-pad changes volume.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. Rows can be re-scanned to a different control, given hold and double-tap actions, chords, turbo, macros, haptic or spoken feedback, and per-binding deadzones and sensitivity curves. The binding editor guide covers every option, and the controller map shows what each control is called.

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